Product Description

Living in seclusion, Frank and Donnie have created a safe haven, free from the turmoil of the outside world. Frank (Edward Ice Mrozek) has successfully subdued an intense rage, in an effort to rise above his murderous father and live a good life. His brother, Donnie (Christopher Childs) relies on him completely, the abuse and torment of their past rending him emotionally stunted. Forced to rescue his brother from a violent attack, Frank crosses paths with the local sheriff, a girl is mysteriously killed, and they kidnap the only witness, a young cafe manager named Beth (Shana Klisanin). Now Frank and Donnie have a dead body on their hands, a girl in their house, and the entire town suspects them as killers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #167354 in DVD
• Brand: ANTHEM PICTURES
• Released on: 2006-11-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• ESRB Rating: Teen
• Formats: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 81 minutes

Features

• Living in seclusion, Frank and Donnie have created a safe haven, free from the turmoil of the outside world. Frank (Edward Ice Mrozek) has successfully subdued an intense rage, in an effort to rise above his murderous father and live a good life. His brother, Donnie (Christopher Childs) relies on him completely, the abuse and torment of their past rending him emotionally stunted. Forced to rescue

Customer Reviews

Bloodshed...Diamond in the rough
Bloodshed: 8 out of 10: When I discuss no-budget horror films with my friends. (Or the voices in my head) We often sound like those Monty Python coal miners trying to out-do the horrors of each others childhood. "Raptor Island hah I sat through San Franpyscho." "San Franpyscho is an Academy Award picture compared to Dark Harvest 3. Now that's cinematic pain." So I began to question myself on why I would purposely rent such films as Heartstopper or Warriors of Terra when there are plenty of fine Hollywood productions starring Nicholas Cage such as National Treasure or The Wicker Man I could be watching instead.

Okay the recent Cage oeuvre may be a very bad example but the question remains why torture myself with what is basically other people's home movies. Bloodshed is the answer to that question.

It is one of those rare no-budget films where the acting isn't grating, the script is competent and the direction is actually good. The film even delivers both genuine tension and characters you actually care about.

In terms of pacing and characters it handily beats out most Hollywood films let alone most Hollywood horror films. (Before you accuse me of exaggerating please remember that every Adam Sandler comedy is considered a Hollywood film. I'm grading on a curve here people.) Bloodshed is bragging rights, a true gem in a field of.. well incompetent home movies.

Is the film perfect? Well no. It is slow to start (this turns into one of it's charms), the sheriff could have been played better and the ending is pretty awful.

Overall a good film and considering its genre and budget a very very good film indeed.

Some Rhyme, Little Reason
The ending to this movie really disappointed me. Did she survive or was she just dreaming that part? Was the older brother choking her at the end? Another major problem I have with this one is that it took so much time and effort to develop the other three characters, shouldn't one of them have survived? I always love the "lost in the woods" theme. And what happened that made the mentally challenged brother, all of a sudden, start talking like he was the head of Microsoft. That is a mystery. There were too many questions for me to give this movie more than two stars, though I have seen much worse. The acting was good, as was the idea, but the story was not put together well. The reasoning for killing the two lovebirds at the end made no sense at all, even for serial killers.

Also, it seemed to me that the relationship between the kidnapped waitress and the retarded brother should have been written better. His developing feelings for her could have led him to help her escape and even have a fight to the death with his brother. The movie lead us to believe that he was innocent and niave, being misled by his older brother. All of a sudden he turns normal and then has his throat slashed by who I thought was his crush, in the middle of a fight.

I think the story had its' jugular slashed.